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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Banladesh—Religiuos fundamentalism is a major problem

What I like about this article is to see that fundamentalist religion is a problem for many of us in other places in the world. Here in the US we deal with Christian fundamentalists who hold the same unscientific and superstitious beliefs. Here as there we see the education system used to reinforce religion. Even in our own public schools, many teachers have the slogan “In God we Trust.” Every day students say the pledge of allegiance, which has that “god we trust” in it. -សតិវអតុ

Constant
suffering is being created in people’s daily life through killing, looting,
vandalizing in the name of religion or biting each other in greed for power.
Transport and communication, business and industries are collapsed. Common
laboring people are not being able to go to work.

Why?

Because
war criminal tribunal has given death sentence to Saidee, an infamous Razakar
(collaborator force of Pakistani military in East Bengals’Sarbaharapath) of
1971. It agitated the party of Saidee, the Jamat-e-Islami and its student wing
the Islami Chatra Shibir. About seventy people died and many injured in their
last several days’ violence. They set buses with passengers afire, killed
patient by setting ambulance afire, burned many wagons of train, vandalized
houses and temples of minority Hindu community. Most of the slain are the poor
and backward people, who were instigated and cheated by Jamat-Shibir. Most of
the people in border are Muslim who migrated mostly from India during the
partition of India as a result of communal contradiction while the rest in the
border are the Rohinga Muslim people in Cox’s Bazar and Bandarbands migrated
from Myanmar because of religious oppression there. In these areas, since long
Jamat has been carrying organizational work and propaganda of feudal,
religionist backward idea on the basis of Islamism. On the other side, in most
of the areas of Bangladesh, the only education that exists among people is
religious superstition. Science and enlightment is alien to them. In such
ignorant darkness of some areas, the Islamist Jamat used computer technology to
superimpose image of Saidee on Moon and showed Public declaring that Saidee has
been seen in moon. The Islamists cheated backward men and women, instigated
them to move to Jihad. Number of these innocent men and women Jihad ended up
having lost their lives. Though the urban middle class got in touch of modern
science and enlightened a little bit, most of the areas of Bangladesh are in
dark middle age.

And
this is the reality.

Children
are forced to believe in religious superstition; made terrified by ghosts, evil
spirit, super naturalism and after death spiritual life. For poor people, it is
easy and natural to believe that, because their material world is not that much
fruitful, while that of rich are full of profit and greed. Even then, they are
not satisfied.

BNP
joined the violence of Jamat-Shibir by tailing behind them. They came to catch
fish out of dirty water.

Awami
League, BNP, Jamat and JP are the main parties of ruling class. They have
captured the capital and possessions of Bangladesh. As Awami League is in
power, it is having the major portion of profit; JP and revisionist Lefts are
with it.

They
have annulled the care taker government system so that the opposition to Awami
League may not win the election.

Jamat-BNP,
despite having no move in three years, started movement since the third year of
Awami rule demanding reestablishment of care taker government system.
Everything was going well. Awami League had no hope of winning election. Their
possibility of winning was very less due to various reasons including price
hike, peasants not having good price of rice, many times increase of price of
oil, gas and electricity, corruption in Padma river bridge project, and set
back in share market. In order to make split in BNP-Jamat alliance, Awami
League made secret collusion with Jamat, and led war crime tribunal to give
life sentence to Qader Mullah in the course of trial of infamous collaborators
of Pakistani invading army of 1971. That agitated middle class young
generation. They forged a movement demanding death sentence to Razakars
including Qader Mullah, which forced government to correct law by keeping
system of appeal. Government appealed to increase the punishment of Qader
Mullah. In the mean time, Jamat-Shibir cadres brutally killed Razib Haider, a
young atheist blogger who was one of the initiator of Shahbagh movement; again
it agitated people all over the country including middle class young
generation. And it was Friday, 22 February, when the Jamat like minded Islamist
political parties infiltrated different mosque including Baitul Muqarram. After
the Friday prayer, they drove the devotee to commit anti-atheist riot and
violence. Apart from 5/7 Islamists killed in their violence, some innocent
villagers and passer by were also killed in Police crossfire.

A
few days later, when Saidee was given death sentence as verdict, since then,
the Jamat-Shibir carried violence in different regions including some border
areas of the country and tried to commit riot.

Shahbagh
movement is centered on an issue and that is the demand of death sentence to
the war criminals. Despite it is of a very much partial character, it gained
peopleâ€™s support. It is of partial because---

1)The war criminals of Pakistani invading army were not
put in trial as Sheikh Mujiv and Awami League was Indian lackey, they didnâ€™t
demand trial. Actually East Bengal was occupied by India, so according to
Shimla Treaty, India handed over Pakistani soldiers in exchange of Kashmir.

2)Sheikh Mujiv declared general amnesty to the Razakars.

3)Awami government led by Sheikh Mujiv had killed
hundreds of Maoist communists including Siraj Sikder, what was war crime.

4)BNP government led by Zia had killed hundreds of rebel
soldiers, what was war crime.

5)Many people were killed in Ershad’s military rule.

6)Two term Khaleda led BNP government and two term Hasina
led Awami government with a care taker government in the mean killed hundreds
of Maoist leaders, cadres and people in the name of crossfire, what was state
war crime.

All
these are war crime. State itself is the biggest war criminal.

In
Shahbagh movement this total demand is not being raised. Needless to say, the
fundamental demand of peopleâ€™s life and livelihood will not be raised. Moreover,
they have taken state favor. Even then, despite its partial character, we
presumed that as a just demand, while in fact that will not be able to solve
the basic problem. Why? Because the main problem is Hasina-Khaleda-Ershad-Golam
Azam all; among them Hasina is principal because she is in power.

They,
by competing each other, have penetrated religion in state and society as
dominating idea.

They
have made religious education compulsory and kept continuing Madrasha
education. They hope they will be able to freely carry rule and exploitation if
they are able to confine people backward. We hate the heinous activities of
Jamat-Shibir started in the name of religion. At the same time, we express
hatred against the activities of BNP as its tail. They want to go to power by
capitalizing ignorance and superstition on the basis of religion. In the name
of Islam, they want to sustain feudalist production relation, and also semi
colonial domination of Saudi Arabia, India and different imperialist countries.

Jamat-BNP,
through anti people general strike and devastation have made public life
horrible. When already people are distracted by the Awami government’s
exploitation, repression and suppression, the new oppression made people
exhausted. People are in serious security risk due to the incidents like
setting buses and trains afire with passengers. Life and property of minority
people are under attack.

The
bourgeoisie and feudal political parties are doing this from their greed for
power.

And
the people are the one who elect them by voting. Better to say, they are forced
to vote. Except a handful of elements illusioned by the political deception of
exploiters, most of the people go to vote under direct or indirect pressure of
higher and middle class. They force people to dance according to their tunes.
This is called slavery. Eighty percent of the peasantry that are the majority
of people is landless and poor who don’t have food and work facilities.
Peasants are losing inclination to agro production because of not having
minimum good price of rice and excessive production cost. The minimum wage of a
worker is one third of what he needs to survive. And majority of the middle
class are suffering insecurity of uncertainty of average life leading.

This
situation must change. Change of one party of the ruling class by another,
government emergency or martial law by the military bureaucratism of that class
will not make any fundamental change. The given state influenced religious
based backward education results Islamist blindness.

Without
revolutionary transformation of society, it is not possible to solve the
problem of survival of man. Martyr comrade Siraj Sikder had initiated such a
revolution with the ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. This struggle is to
establish a communist society where there will be no exploitation of man by
man. The newly formed CPMLM wants to reach people that very message. Formed led
by new generation communists, this party should be developed and the party will
lead people in struggle for new democracy, socialism and communism.

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